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...Alabama—Yeah, yeah, we get it, you had a great football team in the '70s. Doesn't make it your birthright to complain about the program at every opportunity until (if?) you win it again.  Also, how can you seriously play "Sweet Home Alabama" before the national anthem at football games...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: It Takes One To Know One: Reviewing GQ's "Douchiest College" List | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...Though long considered the favorite to win the position of Director General at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, Hosni's chances of winning that role later this month have been hit by an international campaign launched earlier this year. It began with a boom last May, when French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, and French film director Claude Lanzmann authored an editorial in Le Monde accusing Hosni of being a "dangerous man" who'd been responsible for a series of "insane declarations" regarding Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's UNESCO Candidate: An Anti-Jewish Bigot? | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Barack Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Florida since FDR. He was in fact the first Democrat from the northern U.S. to win the Sunshine State since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Schools to Big Brother Barack: Stay Out! | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...Both Turkey and Armenia have taken a brave and statesmanlike step," says Hugh Pope, analyst with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. "Both will win if it succeeds." For landlocked Armenia, an open border could mean huge economic gains. Ali Guvensoy, head of the chamber of commerce of Kars in eastern Turkey, estimates the regional economy could grow by 20%, a boon for the impoverished area. Opening the border will also bolster Turkey's ambitions to become a political heavyweight in the region. "If successful, [the talks] could win back for Turkey much of its recently faded prestige as domestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey and Armenia: Thaw in a Century-Old Feud? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...will be a revolutionary election that will end the leadership of bureaucrats and put the focus on the people." - Speaking hours after his win...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's Next Leader | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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